Tag: artnews.com

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/2275076289.jpg?w=1024″] The Trump administration’s overhaul of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has become even messier, with newly obtained federal documents showing that the contractor hired to repaint the basin bright blue secured what government officials themselves described as an “inflated” profit margin while still struggling to stop the pool from leaking. The latest…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/dsc_4645-2-copy-1-.jpeg?w=1024″] Tiwani Contemporary, one of the few highly visible European galleries with a stated focus on the African diaspora, will close after 15 years, bringing to an end an ambitious run that helped elevate artists such as Joy Labinjo and Emma Prempeh to star status. It is merely the latest gallery in a…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/bow.jpg?w=1024″] It was inevitable: The audacious robbery of the Louvre, in which thieves broke into one of the world’s most well-attended museums in broad daylight and stole $102 million in jewels, will now be a film. The new film, set to be directed by rising French filmmaker Romain Gavras, will be adapted from…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2276484870.jpg?w=1024″] A range of well-known French artists signed an open letter on Wednesday that sought a boycott of the Centre Pompidou‘s soon-to-be-inaugurated Seoul satellite museum in protest of a partner foundation’s ties to Israel. Opening on June 4, the museum is officially known as the Centre Pompidou Hanhwa, its name referring to the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/galiciaartcenter.jpg?w=1024″] Good Morning! Controversy has erupted in Spain over the appointment of a high school art teacher as director of the Galician Center for Contemporary Art. President Trump’s no-bid contract to paint the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool blue and stop leaks granted an inflated profit to the construction company on the job. The…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/3_Art-Basel-Paris-2025_Courtesy-of-Art-Basel.jpg?w=1024″] Art Basel Paris will return to the Grand Palais this fall with more than 200 exhibitors from 41 countries and territories, marking the fair’s fifth edition and the first under the direction of Karim Crippa, who has replaced the outgoing director Clément Delépine. Scheduled to run October 23–25, with preview days October 21–22,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Anderson_S_Export.jpeg?w=1024″] Samantha Anderson has joined Heritage Auctions as Chief Legal Officer and EVP of Business Development and Special Projects. She comes from Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP, where she was an attorney in the Art and Museum Law group for three years. It’s the latest in a series of strategic moves by…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/SAAM-2002.23_1.jpg?w=1024″] The first three words from the preamble of the United States Constitution—“We the People”—are among the most famous in the world. But these days, as the country approaches its 250th anniversary, plenty of politicians in power have tried to draw boundaries around who is counted in that “We.” There have been attempts…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/AN_America_List_Header_2026_84f930.jpg?w=1024″] What, exactly, defines America? It’s a question that’s been asked for more than two centuries, and it’s one not likely to be conclusively answered anytime soon. But, with the 250th anniversary of the nation’s founding fast approaching, we took the occasion to hash out a response to that query, using art as…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Kinlaw_Gut-Ccheck_Ride-the-Ride_2025.jpg?w=1000″] When I learned that performance artistKinlaw had spent two years as an artist-in-residence at Bell Labs’ anechoic chamber, which is designed to be completely silent, I was excited to ask if she’d heard anything. After all, John Cage famously recalled hearing the high and low tones of his nervous and circulatory systems.…